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</head><body text="#000000">I'm thinking more of HOT's use of what I
might call disposable mappers mapping in places such as Africa.<br>
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I come across patches of untagged ways that are drawn over buildings,
and buildings with odd tags on them.<br>
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If you look at the number of buildings each mapper maps often it's quite
low say twenty or so. In iD I think it's 4 clicks to put the corners
in, one for q, then you need to add the tag say seven mouse clicks per
building. With the buildings_tool it's either three clicks or two
clicks. More to the point the building is correctly tagged for mapping
from imagery and you get twice as many buildings for the same number of
clicks.<br>
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I suspect there are other things that could be restricted as well
according to the task manager settings.<br>
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So no it wouldn't offer any functionality that iD doesn't today other
than the buildings_tool plugin. If anything it would only permit a
subset of things to be mapped. The more flexibility and complexity you
offer the more likelihood there will be errors in the work and the
longer the training period.<br>
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Cheerio John<br>
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<span>Andy Townsend wrote on 1/19/2022 1:42 PM:</span><br>
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cite="mid:9a337e32-65f7-2e8b-e08f-07f1d5d52056@gmail.com">On 19/01/2022
18:23, John Whelan wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">I'm thinking of new mappers adding buildings.
JOSM with the
buildings_tool plugin is ideal for doing this but is considered by
many to be too complex for a beginner.
<br>
<br>So would it be possible to hide most of the flexibility and options
and present an easy to use version of JOSM to new mappers?
<br>
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Presumably you're referring to
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/BuildingsTools">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/BuildingsTools</a> rather
than anything actually called "building_tool".
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<br>
What would it and a "dumbed down JOSM" offer that iD does not already
offer?
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"drawing a rectangle and clicking q" does not seem arduous to me at all.
<br>
<br>
I can imagine that if someone's mapping intricate terraces then JOSM
plugins are really useful, but I'm guessing that's not really an issue
where you're looking at new users' edits?
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Best Regards,
<br>
<br>
Andy
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